{"id":133792,"date":"2021-02-15T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=133792"},"modified":"2021-02-15T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:28:05","slug":"republican-congressman-introduces-measure-urging-u-s-to-boycott-2022-winter-olympics-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-congressman-introduces-measure-urging-u-s-to-boycott-2022-winter-olympics-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Congressman Introduces Measure Urging U.S. To Boycott 2022 Winter Olympics In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-congressman-introduces-measure-urging-u-s-to-boycott-2022-winter-olympics-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=133792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Waltz-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) introduced a measure on Monday urging the U.S. to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics, which are set to take place in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party has carried out a number of heinous acts in the last year alone that should disqualify them from hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics,\u201d Waltz said in a statement. \u201cThe world cannot legitimize the CCP\u2019s acts of genocide in Xinjiang, destruction of the democratic rights of Hong Kong, and dangerous suppression of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan that cost lives by sending delegations to Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure highlights the findings from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China for 2020\u2019s report on China, which includes that China and the Chinese Communist Party \u201chave taken unprecedented steps in the last year to extend their repressive policies through censorship, intimidation, and the detention of individuals and groups for exercising their fundamental human rights, especially in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure notes that an estimated nearly 2 million people have been detained in China\u2019s internment camps where they are subjected to \u201cforced labor, torture, and political indoctrination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waltz noted that China dismantled the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d framework in Hong Kong and has \u201cseverely undermin[ed]\u201d the \u201crule of law and respect for human rights that the territory has long enjoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure notes how China has \u201cfurther intensified campaigns that aim to bring religion in China under closer official control, and authorities have expanded campaigns to target, control, and surveil not only religions deemed \u2018foreign\u2019 like Christianity, Islam, and Tibetan Buddhism, but also traditional Chinese religions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also highlights failures surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, including the suppression of doctors in Wuhan who were trying to sound the alarm about the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about what we\u2019ve gone through in the last year as a country \u2013 what it is doing to our children, to our elderly, to our families in terms of the coronavirus,\u201d Waltz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rep-mike-waltz-boycott-2022-beijing-winter-olympics-resolution\">told<\/a> Fox News, adding that it was \u201cindisputable at this point that the Chinese Communist Party covered\u201d up the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you have that, on top of, what is increasingly coming to light a genocide \u2013 forced labor, internment,\u201d Waltz continued. \u201cTo see the American flag and to see American athletes in Beijing celebrating what is the worst of the worst authoritarian regimes right now \u2013 I can\u2019t imagine it. It makes me sick to think of the Olympics \u2013 in just 11 months \u2013 being celebrated in Beijing after all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution urges the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Recognition, celebration and support for the commitment, dedication, and patriotism of the 2022 United States Winter Olympics Team athletes, coaches, trainers, and staff.<\/li>\n<li>That the United States Olympic Committee propose the transfer of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to a site other than within the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/li>\n<li>That the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should transfer the 2022 Winter Olympic games to a site other than within the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/li>\n<li>That, if the International Olympic Committee rejects such a proposal, the United States Olympic Committee and the Olympic Committees of other countries should withdraw from the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.<\/li>\n<li>The Secretary of State is requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to the government of each country that is represented on the International Olympic Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CCP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CCP<\/a>&#8216;s actively:<br \/>\u2013 Committing genocide &amp; mass internment of Uighurs &amp; other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang<br \/>-Undermining democratic rights &amp; dismantling of \u2018one country, two systems\u2019 framework in Hong Kong<br \/>\u2013 Lying about COVID since the start<br \/>(1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelgwaltz\/status\/1361333783157424128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) introduced a measure on Monday urging the U.S. to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics, which are set to take place in Beijing, China. \u201cThe Chinese Communist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893482,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6812,5408,5413,4663,3911,6813],"class_list":["post-133792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-boycott","tag-congressman","tag-introduces","tag-measure","tag-republican","tag-urging"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}